ligo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Acronym of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a large-scale physics experiment that successfully detected gravitational waves in 2015.
name
Alternative letter-case form of LIGO
Example Sentences
- "In February 2016, scientists announced that the first direct observation of gravitational waves had been made using just the two LIGO detectors."
- "“These are the highest masses of black holes we’ve confidently measured with gravitational waves,” said Hannam, a member of the Ligo scientific collaboration."